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GRQUICK
Author

Jaime Varela
Organization: University of California Berkeley
Department: Physics
Revision date

2013-01-30
Description

GRQUICK is a Mathematica package designed to quickly and easily calculate/manipulate relevant tensors in general relativity. Given an NxN metric and an N-dimensional coordinate vector, GRQUICK can calculate the: Christoffel symbols, Riemann Tensor, Ricci Tensor, Ricci Scalar, and Einstein Tensor.

Along with calculating the above tensors, GRQUICK can be used to: manipulate four vectors in curved space, define tensors, display the geodesic equations, take covariant derivatives of tensors, and plot geodesics.

See the example notebook for specific notation on tensors.
Subject

*Science > Physics > Relativity Theory
Keywords

Einstein, tensor, physics, general relativity, schwarzschild, metric, field equations, vector, black hole, black-hole, covariant derivative, geodesics, geodesic plotting
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GRQUICK.m (21.2 KB) - Mathematica Package
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GRQUICK_manual.nb (216 KB) - Mathematica Notebook